The book was better
It's like Snake but battle mode
Somehow this predicted AAA games going by image factor and flexibility of small gameplay ideas into separate sections to add variety which is, interesting but absolutely about as shallow and thin as those donut discs they use in the movie
Summary: insert fictional boardroom meeting where Disney execs said “no you can’t just make the motorcycle game into an arcade cabinet you need more”
Summary: insert fictional boardroom meeting where Disney execs said “no you can’t just make the motorcycle game into an arcade cabinet you need more”
Tron Arcade is a game that I definitely see the appeal of but it's not something I'm particularly into myself.
The game consists of four sub-games based on events from the film. MCP Cone is the simplest, as all you have to do is fire at the MCP's shields and make it into his cone with hitting the walls.
I/O Tower is second on this scale, as it uses similar controls to MCP Cone but has you derezzing Grid Bugs (creatures the film only referenced once and were never actually fought btw)
The Grid Bugs can overwhelm you in the harder variants of this game but it's not too hard in the early stages, just make it through the bugs and enter the circle to win.
Battle Tanks reminded me a little of Wii Tanks from Wii Play (showing my age, I know) where you control a tank in a maze and have to navigate through to avoid getting derezzed and derezzing the enemy tanks. This ones fairly hard but I feel it's well designed and once you get into the groove, it can be quite rewarding to win this one.
Then we have Light Cycles, the worst sub-game in my opinion. It's frustrating enough in the easiest version when you've only got to compete with one enemy but later stages have you dealing with three. Doesn't help that sometimes my cycle won't turn when I want it to and I die due to some weird delay in the controls. It makes me wish I could escape like Flynn did in the film through a crack in the wall of the game grid.
Overall, I think Tron Arcade could be a great time with a group of friends in an arcade. Playing the sub-games and seeing who can land the best score, but playing it alone is only fun for so long and it doesn't help that I don't even think Light Cycles is that good in this one.
The game consists of four sub-games based on events from the film. MCP Cone is the simplest, as all you have to do is fire at the MCP's shields and make it into his cone with hitting the walls.
I/O Tower is second on this scale, as it uses similar controls to MCP Cone but has you derezzing Grid Bugs (creatures the film only referenced once and were never actually fought btw)
The Grid Bugs can overwhelm you in the harder variants of this game but it's not too hard in the early stages, just make it through the bugs and enter the circle to win.
Battle Tanks reminded me a little of Wii Tanks from Wii Play (showing my age, I know) where you control a tank in a maze and have to navigate through to avoid getting derezzed and derezzing the enemy tanks. This ones fairly hard but I feel it's well designed and once you get into the groove, it can be quite rewarding to win this one.
Then we have Light Cycles, the worst sub-game in my opinion. It's frustrating enough in the easiest version when you've only got to compete with one enemy but later stages have you dealing with three. Doesn't help that sometimes my cycle won't turn when I want it to and I die due to some weird delay in the controls. It makes me wish I could escape like Flynn did in the film through a crack in the wall of the game grid.
Overall, I think Tron Arcade could be a great time with a group of friends in an arcade. Playing the sub-games and seeing who can land the best score, but playing it alone is only fun for so long and it doesn't help that I don't even think Light Cycles is that good in this one.
Generic and basic versions of other games bundled in a Tron skin with a mix of visuals. I'm sure it was popular because It let people play the light cycle game, which would just be another clone of Blockade without the franchise makeup.
4 stars based largely on the sentimentality of my youth, plus the ease of entry and high replayability. 1 star added because it's awesome.
The light cycle level reigns supreme, and the random nature of finding it through the blind game selection was frustratingly fun.
I actually found it in an arcade in Michigan in 2023 and, after escaping a light cycle jam with a single block of an opening available, to the audible amazement of my son, I've never felt more like a "user" in my life!
The light cycle level reigns supreme, and the random nature of finding it through the blind game selection was frustratingly fun.
I actually found it in an arcade in Michigan in 2023 and, after escaping a light cycle jam with a single block of an opening available, to the audible amazement of my son, I've never felt more like a "user" in my life!
Oh man, I'm surprised nobody has reviewed Tron yet! Well, what can I say? This game consists of 4 modes, the two shooting games are definitely the most boring to me. There's was nothing very exciting about them that you couldn't get better from another game. The tank game is cooler, as you navigate a maze in a tank and your shots can ricochet off of walls and around corners, which is pretty neat. The lightcycle is by far the standout as the most rad thing in this game and the most iconic Tron thing in general. You drive a neon lit motorcycle around what start as an open plane, but you and your opponent leave permanent trails of light wherever you go. It quickly makes an obstacle course of where you've been and you have to both navigate around all this and also think of how to use it to defeat your opponent. Most of the 3 1/2 stars I'm giving this are due to the lightcycle game tbh. Also, I'm just a sucker for the whole techno aesthetic of Tron.